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These scenes with the chair were filmed in the actual execution chamber at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where "Gruesome Gertie" had been used for real executions a decade earlier. "Gruesome Gertie" is the instrument of death in Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying. It's used to execute the young black man Jefferson, for a murder he ...
"Gruesome Gertie", Louisiana's portable electric chair, was improperly set up before the execution by an intoxicated guard and inmate, resulting in the current not being strong enough to kill Francis or knock him unconscious. The execution failed as a result and Francis could be heard shouting "Take it off!
Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. [2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.
[6] Sonnier was strapped in what was known as "Gruesome Gertie", the state's oak electric chair. [7] After electrical currents were administered, Elmo Patrick Sonnier was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. [8] Sr. Prejean and other Catholic nuns took responsibility to ensure a proper Catholic burial for Elmo Sonnier.
Gertie, in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Gertie Gator, one of the toys in the PBS Kids series Noddy. Gertie Growlerstien, a fictional monster from the Disney Junior TV series Henry Hugglemonster; Gravel Gertie (character), in the comic strip Dick Tracy; The title character of Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 film
Dick Tracy managed to kill Gruesome and save his body before it was accidentally cremated in a furnace. Gruesome was played by Boris Karloff, whose post-death scene was a parody of the film Frankenstein where the monster, played by Karloff, is burned in a windmill fire. Gruesome reappeared in an ironic story arc that ran from Oct. 13, 2014 to ...
The Plenty family was a group of goofy redneck yokels headed by the former villain Bob Oscar ("B.O."), along with Gertrude ("Gravel Gertie") Plenty. Gravel Gertie was introduced as the unwitting dupe of the villain the Brow, who was on the run from Dick Tracy. The family provided a humorous counterpoint to Tracy's adventures.
Old Sparky at the Tucker Unit, Arkansas.It was used to conduct 104 executions from 1926 to 1948. Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.